Archive for December, 2009
What lies ahead.
I won’t come back on 2009. I am not a nostalgic kind of guy. I’ll just support Steve’s claim on how this particuliar year marked many breakthroughs for us, professionally and online speaking, and I kind of feel things will be different and, possibly, a bit less exciting for us. You can’t have European Elections [...]
That was the year that was
One year ago. December 2008. I just remember being incredibly stressed out; and, remarkably, that Tibo was even more so. We were up against the deadline for signing the “online” contract with our agency. We maybe didn’t realise it at the time, but in that contract the shape of WebCom’s annus mirabilis could already be discerned.
2009 in one picture
Fred is our talented designer and a welcome Guest blogger. Before leaving the office, he sent us his own personal view of 2009. We couldn’t resist publishing it. So: this what 2009 looked like in the eyes of our beloved designer.
Yes! Superpower, baby…
Some people really believe in superpowers. Ok, maybe not believe, but at least secretly wish to have one and take advantage of it every once and a while. But what if we pretend for a minute that we are actually super heroes, with all those powers seen in movies or cartoons? What if the entire [...]
Lesson for writers
Writing is what we do for a living, right? And we all want to improve the way we are doing it. Here comes a very good lesson from best-sellers writers. As usual: read it, print it, stick it in the elevator.
How to make a simple office so… my own mine?
Once I spotted this office, I decided altogether that I should check it out a bit more and find out what it is that makes it constantly crowded with loud people dropping by for a laugh. Is it the slightly decorated walls, with the clumsy painted Europe map, all the Cuba memories on the walls [...]
Professional chatterboxes
Already thought by some of our colleagues to pass our working hours in ways that are not quite serious, we have just started a new line of work which will give them another stick to beat us with. Yes, we now – officially – spend our time chatting online.
Angelina and Eva, but both Joly
Angelina and Eva, but both Joly: the same last name might stimulate one’s curiosity to plunge into a deeper read. Both personalities have their own charm and fame, but each holds different mission in mundane life- from being a star actress and courageous magistrate. “Bite” this tasty piece of info, you won’t regret.
“People on the web only look for naked women”
“Why don’t you help us a little bit with the press, instead of writing those nice stories that, yes…are ok but…nobody reads?” “Ah!!I thought you were only translating few articles…” “Alé, that in the end you only copy/paste the news from the press!” “We show the WebTV to the visitors…But, no, not Facebook….I didn’t know [...]
« Traviata » on the web: democratization of « high culture »?
There are two hours left before going out. Enough to be prepared to go to the opera. The magical atmosphere begins well before the first chords of the orchestra. Buying tickets one month before the performance, preparation, people well dressed, building itself, scenography and so on make opera a special moment. And if this lyrical [...]
Copenhagen, Copenhagen…
Everybody has been long talking about it…now it is actually happening. Here is a very useful website of the EP delegation to Copenhagen. Videos, infos, quizz, news…try them all out here!
Learning from free-lance designers
In my next life, I’ll be a Script Director for American TV Show. No, wait, before that, I’ll be a free-lance website copywriter and I’ll read Smashing magazine everyday and I will use this piece to help me making my clients undertsand they are wrong. And even if I’ll never be a free-lance, I could [...]
Can Obama deliver in Copenhagen?
Obama announced surprisingly last Friday that he will attend the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in the crucial days at the end of the meeting instead of the beginning as originally planned. But why is it so important when Obama will attend the conference? What difference does it make whether he comes this week and [...]
“For example, in Sweden you can’t buy sex”
As a temporary ex-pat living in the EU-bubble just for a short while, I have come to see some differences in understandings of the 27 countries. I guess there are prejudices about every single country in the EU, but as a Swede I of course pick up the ones of Sweden. I have for example [...]
Green and Red equals MySpace
Being on MySpace, for the European Parliament, is a bit like being adults at a teenagers’ party. When we opened our page during the European Elections campaign, we fed it up with widgets, slide-shows, videos. We were quite welcomed by the MySpace community, we got some good feedback in the press and… And then, just [...]
Open up the web!
The web owner, the “father of the web”, as he is called, visited the House yesterday. Sir Tim Berners-Lee came to EP to talk about the importance of an open web. We managed to catch him for a second and asked him some questions on the open and free web and importance of web technologies. [...]
Lucky English speaking friends
Dear English speaking friends: you are lucky! One of the best French Comics’ blogger is now providing his blog in English. His name’s Boulet and he’s arguably one of the most talented BD Blogger we have (BD stands for bande dessinée, the French/Belgium art of comics book). If you fancy the geek culture, Paris and [...]
We need more walls!
It took me long to figure out which wall to pick up on this time, and that is because I had problems deciding over the ones left behind so far. I guess I made the right decision, however, to blow in our photographer’s office. End of the corridor, very well hidden and almost all the [...]
Flash back memories
Time machine keeps ticking and moving without stopping thus shifting us to different pace mode of life. Another day I found my eyes glued to a calendar, my eye balls alarming my brains that its a short time gap left till Christmas. Well, there are lots of Christmas traditions that are practiced by a number [...]
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